CME and Pharmaceutical Meeting Planning

Welcome to the MeetingsNet CME/Pharma Meeting Planner page, where you'll find articles on continuing medical education, rules and regs governing the industry, and tips for pharmaceutical meeting planners.

CME

CME, Coalition-Style

A coalition of nine organizations recently received a $12.5 million grant from Pfizer to develop a CME program on tobacco cessation that's expected to...

Collective CME Resolutions

I begin every January filled with hope and optimism and then I make the same resolutions that I've made for at least 10 years. Many of us engage in similar...

My CME Life List

I have heard a lot about life lists lately; these are the lists that people make outlining things that they want to do or accomplish before they die....

CME/Pharma Rules and Regulations

Continuing Medical Education Profession Launches Certification Program

It took three years and more than 70 volunteers to create the first continuing medical education certification program....

An Ethics Code for MECCs?

Should medical education and communication companies develop an ethics code to counter the perception that they are agents of pharmaceutical companies rather than independent education providers?...

Grant Ban Stalls

The American Medical Association did not approve a proposal by the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs to eliminate commercial support from CME, but the proposal could return in another form next year....

Pharma Meeting Planning

Pharma Meetings: Next Stop, Baltimore

Medical Meetings and the Center for Business Intelligence have partnered with Leverage Software to create Pharma Planners Connect, an online social networking...

Pharma's Conscience

It is ironic, but the pharmaceutical industry, despite having created many successful and life-saving therapies, has one of the worst public images, said...

Pharma Planners Connect

Medical Meetings and the Center for Business Intelligence have partnered with Leverage Software to create Pharma Planners Connect, an online social networking...

Professional Development

Groundhog Day

Did you ever feel like Bill Murray's character in the movie Groundhog Day? Well I do, several times every year and it is always when I am at a CME conference...

CME Certification Moves Forward

To strengthen CME's credibility in the face of increasing government, public, and media scrutiny, CME professionals must demonstrate their competence...

The New CME Professional

A Certification Program...

Medical Meeting Management

Strategies for Savings

When Barbara Dunlavey became executive director at the Biomedical Engineering Society two years ago, there was no meeting budget or system to track expenses,...

MM Pharma Forum to Release Research ReResults

Medical Meetings has partnered with Cutting Edge Information and the Center for Business Intelligence to conduct a study of pharmaceutical meetings industry...

6 Steps to Attract New Attendee Segments

Because every healthcare specialty has a finite pool of prospects, one way to grow your meeting is to move beyond your audience and attract professionals...

Leadership Clinic

Click here to access Medical Meetings special "Learning Leadership" clinic, where three of today's current CME leaders outline the path to leadership success, and provide easy-to-digest modules of learning, followed by case studies you can use to practice each module's instructions.

2005 MECCs Directory

Click here to access our second annual directory of medical education and communication companies. Standard Listings (offered for free) include the MECC's business model (education only or education and promotion), and capabilities (U.S. only or global). Enhanced Listings (available for a fee) include additional details, such as the firm's tax status (for-profit or not-for-profit), strategic partnerships with other organizations, accreditation status, and type of firewall. We also asked MECCs other questions, including whether they have a CME advisory board, how many licensed healthcare professionals are on staff, if any staff members belong to MECCA, the Alliance for CME's special interest group for MECCs, and whether the firm is a member of NAAMECC, the North American Association of Medical Education and Communication Companies.

Medical Meeting Trends

The Best Way to Plan Your Medical Meetings

This section focuses on current trends-what works and what doesn't-in the medical meeting planning industry....

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